Representing Mike Hu, District 21 (Waikiki-Kapahulu)

One of the pioneers of creative/original writing on the Internet, Governor Linda Lingle of Hawaii thought he could make the greatest impact stimulating the thinking in Hawaii by running for the legislature. Whether one wins or loses an election, he thinks concerned citizens must persist in articulating the best ideas on what government can be, because it is the clarity of thinking in society that is the underlying basis of government -- and not merely the individuals in office.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Why Things Are Still Getting Worse in Hawaii

the people of Hawaii have been fed
by the monopoly newspapers for the last 50 years that have made life
hopeless in the Islands -- under the guise of being nonpartisan
discussions of the (education) problems of Hawaii which are largely
these disinformation and misinformation campaigns to keep people in
ignorance -- as their d(D)emocratic choices -- because this is paradise
where these enlightened leaders do all the thinking for everybody else.

"State teachers earn an adjusted-average income of $22,107.96,
according to MoneyRates.com, ranking Hawaii last in the nation and more
$7,000 behind Maine, the next-to-last state on the list."

What does it mean that teachers'"adjusted-average income" is $22,107.96? Adjusted to what? Incomes as they were in 1962? That would have been a very high salary
then. And are only teachers salaries "adjusted" -- or is everyone's
salaries adjusted relative to every other salary and the cost-of-living
automatically -- so that teachers' salaries don't need to be adjusted on
top of the adjustments for everybody else, etc. -- so that they can
meaningfully be stated in current, more obvious (honest) terms rather
than these manipulations (adjustments) -- to say anything that the
spokespersons want to say.

That's why all these articles are
totally meaningless, deceptive and manipulative -- and all the people
with any brains have to leave the islands, while all the con artists of
the world, move to Hawaii where they can get jobs as propaganda (public
relation/information) specialists who will say anything some
organizations will pay them to say -- because they have no shame or
scruples.

But I thought that was what Civil Beat was created to combat -- rather than just become a better propaganda machine.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Just Saying So, Doesn't Make It So

The great casualty of the mainstream mass media, is their
insistence that their saying so, makes anything the truth -- or they
wouldn't have said so. They believe there is no higher truth than
whatever they say, no matter what they say -- because they are the
self-proclaimed arbiters of that truth -- and they got it from others
self-certified to know, even if they do not understand anything
themselves -- but have learned through their mass communication courses, how to seem like one does.

It's very annoying for those who actually and really know what
they are talking about -- to have to listen to the self-proclaimed
authorities on the subject matter they have chosen to define as their
own turf and jurisdiction -- especially in those fields where the truth
is self-evident to most people, without anyone having to tell them authoritatively
what to think. So usually what these self-proclaimed experts do, is to
create fields of expertise, that never existed before their creation of
it -- as though that were of singular great importance of itself, and
not in the context of any real world experiences.

In that manner, they can proclaim what they know as being "brilliant" because it is unintelligible and not self-evident
except to a special group of people indoctrinated to all see the same
things as brilliant -- even if no others can see that also. And so
bureaucracies and hierarchies are created and maintained, to ensure that
everyone is properly indoctrinated (educated) to see things the same
way -- and never to challenge that authority, because that is not what
everyone is entitled to do. Only a self-selected few, can do all the
thinking for everyone else -- and the job of the mainstream mass media,
is to see that everyone else does think that way -- as their specialized
role in the great social machinery.

It doesn't matter that what they say and know, has no basis in
fact or experience -- just that they "know," what everybody else does,
even if it isn't true -- because that is not their business to know or
determine, but only to follow the directives of those in authority. And
somebody is always in authority besides themselves, and what their own
senses are telling them -- because they think the rules override the
realities for which those rules were created to simulate.

Those can be fatal errors when one presumes that they have the
right of way and are safe to proceed -- without first verifying that
presumption with the actual realities of traffic conditions. That is
the most obvious situation there can be glaring differences between what
one thinks -- and what is actually happening. Those are
most of the problems in the world -- the separation of thought -- from
the actualities of reality in our daily lives until one is no longer
effectively functioning in the world most do -- but only in their
thoughts and memories of the world cut off from the verification of the
senses.

One almost expects that among the aged -- as the great problem characteristic of the problems of aging -- but also
is a problem of those at any age, who are effectively disassociated and
disaffected from their own awareness of their environment and context.
Such people argue that they are "right" and should assert their rights,
even at great danger to their very lives, safety and equanimity --
thinking in their minds, that they are in a duel to the death, with
every person and thing they encounter -- which ensures that one day,
they will be -- prematurely and disastrously, which should be the
conditioning to avoid.

Thursday, May 03, 2012

"The King is Dead, Long Live the King"

One of the important and essential functions of any organization
and institutions, is to train and prepare their successors, and if they
don't do that, they've failed miserably in their mission and purpose --
and probably never realized it in the first place, and shouldn't have
been hired the first time -- let alone making the same self-aggrandizing
mistake over and over again.

That seems to be the essential problem of these organizations and
institutions -- run for their own self-aggrandizement and gain -- rather
than for the good of society as a whole.

People in the public service particularly, should be clear about that
mission instead of thinking that everybody else exists for their own
exclusive benefit(s) -- as their "public service."

That's why "education" particularly, has become exclusively about
more money, benefits and less work for the teachers -- and nothing about
the good of the students, and what the students want -- as though
learning (the students) is the problem.

That is the quality missing from "public service" now because the unions have made it a purely self-serving, self-aggrandizing fiefdom -- to perpetuate themselves permanently at the top of the hierarchies and bureaucracies -- and to become more inbred with each succeeding generation who have never known any other way but doing it that way -- "as it's always been done before" -- instead of the better way that is always possible, but not done because they've never done it before, or allowed to think possible.

That's why organizations and institutions fail -- and lose their meaning and purpose for which they were originally conceived -- to eliminate and not perpetuate and enable dysfunctions, crime, ignorance and the appalling disregard for the welfare of everybody else -- in thinking that society and its institutions, exist for their own exclusive benefit -- rather than the general, greater welfare of the whole.

We've just moved the kings and nobles down to every level of the bureaucracies -- and so nothing can be done anymore, but to enrich these few -- as the function of government.